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Sploich · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject: The 80th Annual Academy Awards

One month from today the 80th Annual Academy Awards ceremony will be held at 5PT/8ET on ABC. Here is a list of the nominees, which can be discussed in this thread:

Best motion picture of the year
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Performance by an actor in a leading role
George Clooney in Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones in In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie in Away from Her
Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose
Laura Linney in The Savages
Ellen Page in Juno

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There
Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan in Atonement
Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton

Achievement in directing
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Julian Schnabel
Juno, Jason Reitman
Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy
No Country for Old Men, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson

Adapted screenplay
Atonement
Away from Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Original screenplay
Juno
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages

Best animated feature film of the year
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf's Up

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
Atonement
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
"Falling Slowly" from Once
"Happy Working Song" from Enchanted
"Raise It Up" from August Rush
"So Close" from Enchanted
"That's How You Know" from Enchanted

Best foreign language film of the year
Beaufort
The Counterfeiters
Katyn
Mongol
12

Achievement in cinematography
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Achievement in art direction
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
There Will Be Blood

Achievement in costume design
Across the Universe
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
La Vie en Rose
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Achievement in film editing
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Achievement in makeup
La Vie en Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Best documentary feature
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance

Best documentary short subject
Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother

Best animated short film
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Even Pigeons Go to Heaven
My Love
Peter & the Wolf

Best live action short film
At Night
The Substitute
The Mozart of Pickpockets
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman

Achievement in sound editing
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers

Achievement in sound mixing
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers

Achievement in visual effects
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers

Christo · Gender: Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 1255 Status: User

I vote Norbit for everything.
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Mikes! · Gender: Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 1843 Status: Moderator

I will be SO PISSED if Juno carries away any awards.

the snuggler · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:43 pm Post subject:

i can't believe juno got so many nominations but none for knocked up...even superbad for that matter
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dodger · Gender: Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 2136 Status: User

Haha, that's how I feel about Into The Wild.

I think Juno was really good... but probably not Oscar material. No Country For Old Men, though... if I had my druthers, it would sweep.

Sploich · Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:23 am Post subject:

First of all, could somebody move this to Now Playing? It figures the first topic I start when I come back would be in the wrong place.

Second, I'd just like to say that I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that Atonement will win Best Picture. I honestly think No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood might be more deserving, but Atonement just seems like the movie to win. Then again, I was wrong about Babel last year.

Also, Superbad is just that.

Sharp · Gender: Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 5942 Status: User

This significantly increases my desire to watch sweeney todd.

Sploich · Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:32 am Post subject:

I'm very glad to hear that. Completely putting aside my man-crush for Tim Burton, I think Sweeney Todd was easily the best movie I saw last year. It's like nothing I'd ever seen before, and the first movie to actually put me in a cold sweat.

Mikes! · Gender: Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 1843 Status: Moderator

Sweeny Todd was a really terrible musical.

Sploich · Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:57 am Post subject:

I won't let this thread go on until you explain yourself.

Mikes! · Gender: Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 1843 Status: Moderator

The songs were really repetitive and boring, and Tim Burton's whole direction of the movie is largely derivative of the films of Dario Argento. It wasn't interesting to watch.

(Oh, and I'm split between No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood, btw.)

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the snuggler · Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:50 am Post subject:

Rocky Sullivan · Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:53 am Post subject:

I didn't watch all of Superbad, but I did watch some of the key clips, like the mclovin and the ID scene and some others and seriously, how the fuck do you guys laugh at this shit.

I mean I hope there were some actually funny clips because fuck, Michael Cera is talented as anything and he shouldn't be in shit like that and Juno.
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Otogi-san · gleep glorp Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 5077 Status: User

The scene where they're discussing McLovin's ID wasn't that funny anyway. One of my favorites has to be when Seth has those dream sequences in the grocery store. I loved how Charlie Hartsock was in it too. He did a great job in Arrested Development as Ted.